International Justice Mission (IJM) Australia has welcomed the Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland’s announcement that the Australian Government will develop and legislate a digital duty of care in its response to a key recommendation in the Online Safety Act review.
The world is beginning to wake up to simmering anti-Semitism and rising Islamic extremism after the events of October 7, 2023, and all humanity – not just Jewish people – must be alert to the threat, one of the globe’s
Gaynor had previously applied to the Classification Board to have restrictions placed on a highly pornographic book aimed at children, but the board refused to take into consideration public submissions detailing the “pornographic” and “paedophilic” nature of the book. The
An immediate statewide freeze on hormone therapy for new patients under 18 has been ordered in Queensland after it was discovered a 12-year-old in Cairns was allegedly given puberty blockers without parental consent or appropriate medical guidance. The extraordinary action
Women’s rights have been firmly erased in NSW. Independent Alex Greenwich succeeded in convincing Premier Chris Minns and the Labor party to pass sex self-id law. The bill was passed by both houses. This means males can self-identify as female
A caravan laden with enough explosives to create a 40-metre blast wave could have been a “mass casualty event”, police say, which also contained notes suggesting Jewish Australians and a synagogue were the intended target. The caravan was found on
Writing in The Australian recently, Chris Uhlmann observed that “when you crimp or criminalise words and symbols, a tiny piece of freedom is handed to a bureaucrat to arbitrate”. It was an astute analysis, but Uhlmann did get one thing
Parents and grandparents across Victoria have responded en masse, expressing deep concern to their State parliamentarians over the Labor Government’s “Rainbow Toolkit”. Jasmine Yuen, Victorian Director of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), said, “Victorian parents and grandparents, already deeply concerned
Australia’s censor has cited the “literary, artistic and educational merits’’ of a novel depicting the violent gang rapes of young girls and dismissed a comic book rape scene as “dark humour’’. The federal government’s Australian Classification Board has given a
It is an exciting development that Christian denominations across Australia are working together, through Freedom for Faith, to provide a collective voice for the Church on matters relating to religious freedom. In recent years, there have been many matters the
